BMW Motorcycle Repair – Maintenance: Also see the complete listing of all wBW Technical and Maintenance Articles | Installing Progressive Fork Springs on a 1986 BMW R65 | Installing a Harrison Billet brake caliperon an R65 | Installing a Progressive Suspension 420 shock on an R65 | LED brake – tail light replacement | Airhead turn Signal Relay Replacement | Airhead electronic ignition maintenance | Airhead spline lube with photographs | More
BMW Motorcycle Maintenance: BMW repair and maintenance articles on the BMW South Africa site | Rebuilding and Adjusting Bing Carburetors by J.R. Buchanan | BMW Ignition Module Testing and Information | Many BMW technical and maintenance articles, including cleaning the fuel injectors on a K75 | Anton Largiader’s website and article on ABS II | A New Rick Mayer Saddle – by Randy Glass; article doesn’t seem to exist any more, but Duane has plenty of BMW tech articles on his site; here’s a good one on aligning BMW forks | TS Moly Gear concentrate for spline lubes | Care and Feeding of the BMW Ignition Trigger Unit – Twins 1981-?; by David A. Braun | Mounting an oil cooler on a BMW R60/6 – R100S “Airhead” by Kent Christensen on the BMW Airheads site; some users report oil temperatures going from 250° – 275° F down to 210° – 240° F when using the BMW oil cooler on Airheads | Fitting a second Hall-effect sensor inside a BMW Airhead Boxer’s “Ignition Impulse Sending Unit” 1981 onwards; by Frank Warner | Does your BMW clutch “grab” after it warms up? This article tells you why | Wiring diagrams for various BMW motorcycle models | The “Snowbum” (Bob Fleischer’s) website with Airhead tech articles is now up and running; Snowbum is one of the most helpful and knowledgeable Airhead guys anywhere! | Here’s Snowbum’s BMW torque values page | Repairing Bing carburetors and other technical articles by J.R. Buchanan | Installing an Öhlins Shock on a BMW K1200RS | Lots and lots of really good technical info on /2’s and vintage or antique BMWs on this site by “Duane” | See the Cleaning Aluminum Engine Cases section on the wBW Technical Articles page | Everything you’d ever want to know about BMW fasteners | More on the wBW BMW Page
Suspension: How BMW’s Telelever suspension works and a comparison to forks with some neat animation; see also the wBW Review of the books Motorcycle Dynamics or Motorcycle Design and Technology | Marco Tozzini’s site has dyno data for many BMW models
Fuel Injection: Fuel Injected Motorcycles – site with info and products for remapping fuel injection on BMW’s, Ducati’s, Moto Guzzi’s, Laverda’s, etc.
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